Speaking of shoe news, the pope’s gunna hang up his red ones, but keep the white robes. Also insisted on maintaining the “Pope” instead of “Bishop of Rome” side to his Emeritis title. Suiting up for his Benedict the Theoretically Friendly Ghost of the Vatican role?

Jesus. That an employed adult would not only think that up but actually film it & post it, thinking it is humorous or witty in some way is a pointer to what is wrong with today’s conservatives. They live in their own little reality.

I just finished “Guests of the Ayatollah” by Mark Bowden, and I was struck by the resemblance in attitude of the student hostage takers to so many on the right wing today. “We are right because our God tells us so. Your “facts” are irrelevant to us. WE ARE RIGHT”. Scary.

Sen. Menendez (D-NJ, also divorced) is accused/suspected of flying off to the Caribbean for some prostitutin’ sexy time. Also, too, there may have been some shaky money behind the payment for the fights.

This is supposed to be a huge scandal. From the party that brought you David Vitter.

@Omnes Omnibus: Unfortunately, anyone under the age of 50 cannot help but be pleased and amused that we have a first lady willing to go on TV and dance and be funny and act like a normal person and embarrass her kids.

Ours (McClatchy) for unknowable reasons gives us daily heapings of WaPo’s “finest” by which I mean Will, Ruben, Krauthammer and Parker. Somebody has yet to ‘splain to me why I pay for this, especially since I don’t have a parrot.

@Just Some Fuckhead: She is one of the objectively attractive women out there whose personality completely wipes out any physical appeal they might have had. I can be really shallow in this regard, but there are limits.

OK, watched it all. I admit it. The dude at the Oscars with the booby song wasn’t that bad after all. And the “c” word would surely apply here, since she is a grown up, but for the fact that she is a person “de color” from a nation we stole from somebody.

anyone under the age of 50 cannot help but be pleased and amused that we have a first lady willing to go on TV and dance and be funny and act like a normal person and embarrass her kids.

Michelle O’s gestures in the “Where Is Your Father? Get Him Over Here NOW” part of that skit were so hilariously genuine that I was able to TOTALLY see the “oh shit” looks on the faces of Barack and the girls. :D

Speaking as a guy person, for me there are very roughly two kinds of skinny–this Malkin androgynous kind and the Olivia Wilde kind. I’m quite enthusiastic about the second and I guess I’d need to be a cardinal or something to appreciate the first.

Even if I weren’t aware of the stalking, sneering, snarling side of Malkin she’d do nothing for my pulse rate, regardless. Lasted about fifteen seconds into the vid. There’s no “there” there.

@👽 Martin: Hey, wait a minute… I’m 60 and I’m very happy to have a FLOTUS like Michelle O. She’s one well put together lady. She’s seems relaxed in her role and able and happy to do all kinds of stuff. I love her.

I like to think I was as offended as anyone else here by the Onion joke about Quvenzhané Wallis. But honestly? I don’t think I could be in the same room with Michelle Malkin for more than twenty seconds without screaming the C-word at her at the top of my lungs. Ditto Ann Coulter, Jennifer Rubin, Sarah Palin, Virginia Foxx, and Marsha Blackburn, to name but a few. Just the sound of their voices or even a glimpse of their faces, and I get this burning itch at the back of my throat and a nervous twitch in my right eye as the vilest word I know struggles to escape.

Why go for a sexist term when nice gender neutral expressions like “fucking asshole” exist?

I didn’t say I was proud of it. When one is consumed by burning righteous fury, one doesn’t stop to consider the broader sociological implications of one’s insults. You just fling them and then feel guilty later. Also, it’s kind of hard for me to feel guilty about thinking that word about some Republican women given the existence of Citizens United Not Timid.